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I wonder how a world without main stream media would look like... Would it be a better place? So much negativity, hidden agenda, pay for play, etc. is present, that one would probably be better off staying uninformed, than reading articles with God knows what agenda.
Just three years ago: https://twitter.com/mmflint/status/309124649244057600
Dude is wrong on the Internet. More news at 11.
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For the last 60 years or so, few of the world's worst dictatorships have. In fact, the worst instance of the USA invading another country was sparked by the rare instance in which a terrible dictatorship did attempt to invade another country. Few would praise the Union of Myanmar, for instance, despite its hermetic demeanor towards the rest of the world.
Trying to work out which invasion you are thinking of. Neither Iraq nor Afganistan were triggered by dictators invading other countries. Vietnam was triggered by a dictatorial invasion but the US were essentially invited in. There have been lots of minor invasions in between but I'm struggling to place which one you mean.
A country with one of the greatest oil reserves in the world, fertile land, good climate, access to the sea (world trade) and no military conflicts for a century was turned into a population of homeless people hunting dogs and cats on the streets in order to not starve to death - only possible with Socialism. I remember how ten years ago people on my university (in a Western country) were trying to convince me that C…
Unrestrained equality leads to dictatorship. Unrestrained liberty leads to dictatorship. Democracy requires a balance between equality and liberty, and the political pluralism that is inherent in the vying for power. Partisan fanatics who breathlessly wait for the total victory of their side would do well to remember this.
I strongly doubt that liberty & equality (before law) lead to dictatorship. Unless you mean liberty that goes as far as harming others. But that would infringe on other people's liberty.
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Dude is wrong on the Internet. More news at 11.
More like "Dude and the whole leftist intellectual elite are wrong on the Internet, will never acknowledge being wrong and will be wrong again the next time the same thing happens. News at 11."
Earlier quoted context omitted.
For the last 60 years or so, few of the world's worst dictatorships have. In fact, the worst instance of the USA invading another country was sparked by the rare instance in which a terrible dictatorship did attempt to invade another country. Few would praise the Union of Myanmar, for instance, despite its hermetic demeanor towards the rest of the world.
Trying to work out which invasion you are thinking of. Neither Iraq nor Afganistan were triggered by dictators invading other countries. Vietnam was triggered by a dictatorial invasion but the US were essentially invited in. There have been lots of minor invasions in between but I'm struggling to place which one you mean.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
For the last 60 years or so, few of the world's worst dictatorships have. In fact, the worst instance of the USA invading another country was sparked by the rare instance in which a terrible dictatorship did attempt to invade another country. Few would praise the Union of Myanmar, for instance, despite its hermetic demeanor towards the rest of the world.
Trying to work out which invasion you are thinking of. Neither Iraq nor Afganistan were triggered by dictators invading other countries. Vietnam was triggered by a dictatorial invasion but the US were essentially invited in. There have been lots of minor invasions in between but I'm struggling to place which one you mean.
I'm choosing my words carefully when I say this was the worst instance of the USA invading another country. Gulf War 1 was justified, if any war can be justified --- you don't get a much clearer casus belli than invading and annexing an ally. Gulf War 2 was a disaster of world-historical proportions.
A country with one of the greatest oil reserves in the world, fertile land, good climate, access to the sea (world trade) and no military conflicts for a century was turned into a population of homeless people hunting dogs and cats on the streets in order to not starve to death - only possible with Socialism. I remember how ten years ago people on my university (in a Western country) were trying to convince me that C…
Or the United States in the early 20th Century. Grapes of Wrath and all that.
Where is the worldwide leftist intelligentsia that supported this totalitarian regime from the beginning with wet dreams of "21st century socialism"? They are all quiet now and will surely soon claim that things went wrong there and misrepresent the original intents of the "revolution". It's time to recognize that, once again, socialism resulted in the same results that it has always achieved: hunger, death, lost fre…
Hopefully in the same place as the worldwide right-wing intelligentsia that so actively supported death squads in central America just a few years prior to Chavismo.